revised 7/20/2011

9to5 Working Women Education Fund (9to5)

Grant Amount: $50,000 and $35,000 Fundraising Assistance
Contact: Linda Meric, National Director

207 E. Buffalo Street, #211
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Telephone: (414) 274-0925
Fax: (414) 272-2870
E-mail: 9to5@9to5.org
Web address: www.9to5.org

9to5 is a national multi-racial grassroots organization that combines organizing, public education, research, training, and policy advocacy in an effort to end economic and other types of discrimination against women in the workforce. Active since 1973, 9to5 focuses on four main areas: work/family issues and good jobs; nonstandard work; welfare, wages and income supports; and anti-discrimination. 9to5 has staffed offices in Milwaukee, Atlanta, Colorado and California, and activist networks in 200 cities in all 50 states. 9to5 was a recipient of FACT's multi-year organizational development grant. It also received a 2011 Fundraising Assistance Project - a one time cash grant of $35,000 to help improve its fundraising capacity.


Alliance for Appalachia (AFA)

The Blue Green Alliance is a national, strategic partnership between labor unions and environmental organizations dedicated to expanding the number and quality of jobs in the green economy. Launched in 2006 by the United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club, this unique labor-environmental collaboration has grown to include the nation's two largest environmental organizations and six of North America's biggest unions—with a combined membership of 8 million union members and environmental supporters. The Alliance is also a recipient of the 2011 Fundraising Assistance Project - a cash grant of $35,000 to help improve its fundraising capacity.


California Alliance Grant Amount: $62,500
Contact: Anthony Thigpenn

4801 Exposition Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90016
Telephone: (323) 735-9515
E-mail: athigpenn@cs.com

The tax and fiscal hub of the California Alliance is composed of grassroots organizations determined to improve the economic well-being and political capabilities of low income constituencies through a pragmatic tax reform agenda. The primary organizations of the working group include California ACORN, AGENDA, Urban Habitat and Working Partnerships USA. The coalition was formed in 2004. The workgroup has recently published an historical analysis of tax and fiscal policy in California which analyzes the evolution of the state's current tax and fiscal policies. The group has also completed a statewide mapping of the dominant worldview and values of both base and swing communities as the first step in developing a long-range plan to develop strategic initiatives for tax and fiscal policy reform.


Campaign for Community Values - Center for Community Change (CCC)
Grant Amount: $62,500
Contact: Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director

1536 U Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20007
Telephone: (202) 339-9300
Fax: (202) 360-5686
E-mail: info@communitychange.org
Web Address: www.communitychange.org

The Campaign for Community Values (CCV) is a project of the Center for Community Change. It is made up of over 300 grassroots community organizations working to restore the balance between individualism and the common good. The CCV provides technical support, capacity building, leadership development and a national movement of people and organizations that stands up for everyone and leaves no one behind. CCC was founded in 1968 and is the most prominent anti-poverty organization in the nation that devotes itself to enhancing the power of low-income Americans. It is known for its historic role in building the national and grassroots coalitions that led to the creation of the food stamps program, the Community Reinvestment Act and the large-scale preservation of low-income housing around the country.


Causa Justa::Just Cause (CJJC)
(formerly Just Cause Oakland)
Grant Amount: $50,000 and $35,000 Fundraising Assistance
Contact: Adam Gold, Executive Director

P.O. Box 3596
Oakland, CA 94609
Telephone: (510) 763-5877
E-mail: info@cjjc.org
Web address: http://www.cjjc.org/

Just Cause mobilizes and educates its grassroots members to participate in policy advocacy, civic engagement and leadership development programs designed to create a just and diverse region. In 2009, Just Cause merged with St. Peters Housing merged to form Causa Justa :: Just Cause (CJJC). The merged organization continues to focus on housing, anti-gentrification and community development in Oakland and San Francisco, with a particular focus on those cities' low-income Latino and African American neighborhoods. CJJC is a recipient of the 2011 Fundraising Assistance Project - a cash grant of $35,000 to help improve its fundraising capacity.


Center for Civic Policy (CCP)

Grant Amount: $62,500
Contact: Matt Brix

P.O. Box 27616
Albuquerque, NM 87125
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E-mail: mattbrix@gmail.com
Web address: www.civicpolicy.com

The Center for Civic Policy in New Mexico provides technical support to partner organizations which include community organizing and advocacy groups. CCP's technical assistance includes communications strategy and implementation, support for public policy advocacy, leadership and non-partisan candidate development and non-partisan voter engagement techniques.


Center on Policy Initiatives (CPI)

Grant Amount: $62,500 and $35,000 Fundraising Assistance
Contact: Clare Crawford, Executive Director

3727 Camino del Rio South, Suite 100
San Diego, CA 92108
Telephone: (619) 584-5744, Fax: (619) 584-5748
E-mail: centerpolicy@onlinecpi.org
Web address: www.onlinecpi.org

The focus of CPI's work is to raise the standard of living for San Diego's working poor. Its primary strategies include economic research and analysis, and policy development. It engages in coalition building and advocacy as well as limited grassroots organizing. Its research topics include economic equity, the growth of the working poor, and the development of a state and municipal level infrastructure by the right wing. CPI was at the forefront of the successful living wage campaign in San Diego and helped negotiate a community benefits agreement with the stadium developer. It is building a progressive alliance among community organizations, labor unions, faith-based organizations and student groups in the region. CPI is a recipient of the 2011 Fundraising Assistance Project - a cash grant of $35,000 to help improve its fundraising capacity.


Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE)

Grant Amount: $81,250 and $35,000 Fundraising Assistance
Contact: Marcos Vargas, Executive Director

2021 Sperry Avenue, Suite 18
Ventura, CA 93003
Telephone: (805) 658-0810 Fax: (805) 658-0820
E-mail: marcos@livablewage.org
Web address: www.coastalalliance.com

CAUSE is a community planning and public policy research center serving the central coastal region of California. Its mission is to promote economic and social justice for working families through policy advocacy, research, organizing, leadership development and community building. CAUSE was founded in 2001 and has five key program areas: living wage and accountable economic development, health coverage expansion, women's economic justice, redistricting and fair representation, and community building. CAUSE emphasizes coalition building as a sustainable approach to changing public policy. Recent accomplishments include the passage of five local living wage ordinances in the region and the opening of Centro Mujer, a women's organizing center. CAUSE received a 2011 Fundraising Assistance Project grant of $35,000 to improve its fundraising capacity.


Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW)

Grant Amount: $37,500
Contact: Vernon Haltom, Executive Director

P.O. Box 651
Whitesville, WV 25209
Telephone: (304) 854-2182
E-mail: vernoncrmw@gmail.com
Web address: www.crmw.net

Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW) seeks to end the destruction of communities by mountain top removal mining, to improve the quality of life for local residents and to rebuild sustainable communities. It empowers residents to participate in the democratic processes that govern their lives. It seeks to hold public officials accountable for fulfilling their responsibilities to ensure a safe and healthy environment and to advocate policies to ensure responsible and sustainable economic de-velopment.


Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)

Grant Amount: $93,750 and $35,000 Fundraising Assistance
Contact: Bill Gallegos, Executive Director

5610 Pacific Boulevard, Suite 203
Huntington Park, CA 90255
Telephone: (323) 826-9771
Fax: (323) 588-7079
E-mail: billgallegos@cbecal.org
Web address: www.cbecal.org

CBE works for environmental health and justice for residents of heavily polluted urban communities. The group provides community members with organizing skills, leadership training, and legal, scientific, and technical assistance so that they can successfully confront threats to their health from toxic pollution. CBE sees environmental health as a civil rights and social justice issue because polluting facilities are disproportionately located in or near minority and low-income communities. CBE was created in 1978 and has offices in both Southern and Northern California. It was a recipient of FACT's multi-year organizational development grant and received a 2011 Fundraising Assistance Project grant of $35,000 to help increase its fundraising capacity.


East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE)

Grant Amount: $81,250 and $35,000 Fundraising Assistance
Contact: Nikki Bas, Executive Director

1814 Franklin Street, Suite 325
Oakland, CA 94612
Telephone: (510) 893-7106
Fax: (510) 893-7010
E-mail: info@workingeastbay.org
Web address: www.workingeastbay.org

EBASE brings together community, labor and faith-based groups to work for greater economic and social justice for low-wage workers in the San Francisco area's East Bay region. It emerged from the labor/community collaboration that won the Oakland living wage ordinance in 1998. EBASE combines organizing, research, policy analysis and advocacy, and coalition-building in its efforts to end low-wage poverty and secure economic equity for those living and working in East Bay communities. Among the group's successes have been winning living wage ordinances in the cities of Hayward, Oakland and Berkeley, and at the Port of Oakland. EBASE was also instrumental in creating a program to monitor the implementation of the city of Oakland's living wage ordinance. EBASE is a recipient of a 2011 Fundraising Assistance Project grant of $35,000 to help increase its fundraising capacity.


El Centro de Iqualdad y Derechos

Grant Amount: $37,500
Contact: Rachel Lazar, Executive Director

1702 Broadway SE
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Telephone: (505) 246-1627
Email: rlazar_elcentro@yahoo.com
Web Address: www.elcentro-nm.org


El Centro is a grassroots, Latino-led organization that works with Latino immigrant communities and allies to defend, strengthen, and advance the rights of the Latino community in central New Mexico. Launched in 2005, its efforts have resulted in some of the most immigrant-friendly policies in the nation, including New Mexico drivers licenses for immigrants regardless of immigration status.


Environmental Health Coalition (EHC)

Grant Amount: $62,500 and $35,000 Fundraising Assistance
Contact: Diane Takvorian, Executive Director

401 Mile of Cars Way, Suite 310
National City, CA 91950-6608
Telephone: (619) 474-0220
Fax: (619) 474-1210
E-mail: ehc@environmentalhealth.org
Web address: www.environmentalhealth.org

EHC is a base building group founded in 1980 that organizes in communities in San Diego, CA and Tijuana, Mexico. EHC works with a range of constituencies, including low-income people of color and middle class white communities, all trying to protect themselves from exposure to toxic substances in their neighborhoods. EHC members learn leadership skills and gain political education that enable them to become actively engaged citizens working on the public policies that impact their lives. EHC is an advocate of the Precautionary Principle and is involved in toxics reduction efforts at the national level. Locally, EHC is working with other groups on a comprehensive regional economic development strategy. EHC is a recipient of the 2011 Fundraising Assistance Project - a cash grant of $35,000 to help improve its fundraising capacity.



Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC)

Grant Amount: $56,250 and $35,000 Fundraising Assistance
Contact: Maria Rodriquez, Director

8325 NE Second Avenue, Suite 206
Miami, FL 33138
Telephone: (305) 571-7254, Fax: 305-576-6273
E-mail: mrodriguez@fiacfla.org
Web address: http://www.fiacfla.org

Originally started in 1998 by advocates of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center in Miami, FLIC was incorporated in 2004 into a grassroots, membership-based coalition with a commitment to developing statewide capacity. It has since become an active, agile and respected progressive force bringing together over 60 immigrant-led organizations and their allies in Florida. The organization is a recipient of a 2011 Fundraising Assistance Project grant of $35,000 to help increase its fundraising capacity.


Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ)

Grant Amount: $81,250 and $35,000 Fundraising Assistance
Contact: Kim Bobo, Executive Director

1020 West Bryn Mawr, 4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60660
Telephone: (773) 728-8400
Fax: (773) 728-8409
E-mail: info@nicwj.org
Web address: www.nicwj.org

IWJ was founded in 1996 to educate and organize the religious community about issues and campaigns to improve wages, benefits and working conditions for workers - especially those in low-wage jobs. Since its founding, the organization has become the leading national organization engaging the religious community on issues of workplace justice. It has helped thousands of workers secure contracts that raise wages and improve benefits and working conditions, and has helped retrieve several million dollars in back wages for workers through its workers' centers. IWJ is a recipient of the 2011 Fundraising Assistance Project - a cash grant of $35,000 to help build its fundraising capacity.


Jobs with Justice (JwJ)

Grant Amount: $62,500 and $35,000 Fundraising Assistance
Contact: Sarita Gupta, Executive Director

1325 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20005
Telephone: (202) 393-1044
Fax: (202) 393-7408
E-mail: info@jwj.org
Web address: www.jwj.org

JwJ is a national campaign for economic justice, consisting of more than 40 local coalitions made up of labor, community, faith-based and student organizations. Formed in 1987, JwJ coordinates technical assistance for its local coalitions in cities throughout the U.S, helping them to develop their capacity and infrastructure. JwJ assists local coalitions to develop and carry out campaigns focusing on workplace justice issues such as living wages, and social justice issues, such as immigrant rights. In addition, JwJ works closely with community, labor, policy and other groups to promote alternatives to corporate-led globalization. The organization also received a 2011 Fundraising Assistance Project grant of $35,000 to help increase its fundraising capacity.


Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC)

Grant Amount: $125,000 and $35,000 Fundraising Assistance
Contact: Burt Lauderdale, Executive Director

P.O. Box 1450
London, KY 40743
Telephone: (606) 878-2161
Fax: (606) 878-5714
E-mail: blauderdale@earthlink.net
Web address: www.kftc.org

KFTC is a chapter-based, multi-racial, low- and moderate-income citizens' organization committed to long-term social, political, environmental, and economic justice. Founded in 1981 by a group of 40 east Kentucky residents, it now has over 6,000 members from all over the state. Through direct-action community organizing, it targets corporate and governmental institutions that perpetuate unjust social systems and the degradation of health and the environment in Kentucky. KFTC's victories include gaining a two-year extension of welfare benefits for recipients pursuing additional education prior to transitioning into the workforce, and halting the devastating mining practice of mountain top removal on the state's highest mountain. It also recently helped increase the state income tax threshold which reduced the tax liability of over 500,000 low-income individuals. KFTC is a recipient of a 2011 Fundraising Assistance Project grant of $35,000 to help improve its fundraising capacity.


Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)

Grant Amount: $125,000 and $35,000 Fundraising Assistance
Contact: Madeline Janis, Executive Director

464 Lucas Avenue, #202
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Telephone: (213) 977-9400
E-mail: info@laane.org
Web address: www.laane.org

LAANE was founded in 1993 to help end working poverty and improve the quality of life for working people in the Los Angeles area. It began by organizing a broad-based coalition to work for a living wage law in Los Angeles. It pioneered a strategy to negotiate legally binding community benefits agreements (CBAs) in which a developer commits to a set of benefits desired by the community (including affordable housing, local hiring and environmental mitigation) in exchange for public subsidies and community support. LAANE also provides technical assistance regarding accountable development to residents and community groups across the country. LAANE received a 2011 Fundraising Assistance Project grant of $35,000 to increase its fundraising capacity.


Miami Workers Center (MWC)

Grant Amount: $75,000
Contact: Gihan Perera, Executive Director

6127 NW 7th Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
Telephone: (305) 759-8717
Fax: (305) 759-8718
E-mail: info@theworkerscenter.org
Web address: www.miamiworkerscenter.org

MWC was founded in 1999 to empower low-income workers and communities of color to advocate for better public policies on their own behalf. MWC's goal is to serve as an umbrella organization to provide organizing skills, political education, technical assistance and campaign strategy development to its constituent groups. These groups, made up of local residents from all racial backgrounds, will have a shared analysis and theory of change as a result of MWC's leadership development and political education programs, and will take action locally in their neighborhoods. MWC's work with multi-racial constituencies is particularly important because racial and ethnic tensions are a powerful and divisive force in Florida.


Mobilize the Immigrant Vote! (MIV)

Grant Amount: $50,000
Contact: Aparna Shah, Director

2601 Mission St., Suite 404
San Francisco, CA 94110
Telephone: (415) 821-4808
Email: aparna@mivcalifornia.org
Web Address: www.mivcalifornia.org/

Mobilize the Immigrant Vote! (MIV) is a coalition of community-based, multi-ethnic organizations working to engage immigrant communities in California in the electoral process. MIV offers resources and trainings to help groups educate and mobilize immigrant voters and to connect voter engagement and organizing strategies. MIV offers its resources in English, Spanish and Vietnamese.


Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA)

Grant Amount: $37,500 and $35,000 Fundraising Assistance
Contact: Andrea Lee, Co-Director

3543 18th Street, #23
San Francisco, CA 94110
Telephone: (415) 621-8140, ext. 302
E-mail: andrea@mujeresunidas.net
Web address: www.mujeresunidas.net

MUA has a dual mission of personal transformation and building community power among Latina immigrants. Through group support and political education, MUA members are able to make links between their own personal issues and the broader social, economic and political systems. Through trainings on job skills and workers rights, MUA creates the conditions that enable its members to leave behind domestic violence and find work situations that will support them and their children. MUA's leadership and economic development trainings have graduated over 450 women. Established in 1989 as a project of another organization, MUA obtained its 501(c)(3) status in 2006. MUA received a 2011 Fundraising Assistance grant of $35,000 to help increase its fundraising capacity.


New Mexico Environmental Law Center (NMELC)